Chapter 240. for the relief of Rachael J
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CHAP. 240.— An Act for the relief of Rachael J. Floyd.Feb. 23, 1887. Whereas, Frank B. Floyd entered the United States naval service as aPreamble.Rachael J. Floyd. machinist December sixth, eighteeen hundred and seventy-three; served on the Intrepid and Alarm; was discharged February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; immediately re-enlisted as a machinist; served until he was discharged, May fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; immediately re-enlisted and served until he died, April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; and Whereas said deceased at the time of his death had but one month and fourteen days’ additional service to perform in order to complete the term of his last enlistment, and in order to entitle him to the gratuity provided under the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An act relating to machinists in the Navy:
” Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay the said Rachael J. Floyd, widow of said deceased, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and ten dollars, being the proportion earned during the time served of the gratuity for continuous services of said deceased as a machinist in the Navy provided for under said actPayment to.Vol. 21, p. 290. relating to machinists in the Navy, approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.
Approved, February 23, 1887.